Balian (The Healer)
A film fifteen years in the making follows three Balian (Balinese traditional healers) over time and through triumph and tragedy.
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Grady (12 years old) is an indigo child with the ability to heal illnesses. This talent is a blessing that Grady gladly uses. He enjoys helping those in need. Because of this, he never asks for anything in return. Perhap
The Galactic Pot Healer
Inspired by the Phillip K. Dick novel by the same name, The Galactic Pot Healer is part of the Whispering Pines series, in which Moulton's hypochondriac alter-ego navigates the enigmatic and magical qualities of her pers
The Healer and the Psychiatrist
On the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u, the traditional healer Emeline Lolohea treats people affected by spirits. One day away by ferry, the only Tongan Psychiatrist Dr Mapa Puloka has established a public psychiatr
Fasting: The Healer Within
Two Australian brothers challenge the conventional methods of health and healing through embarking on a 40 day fast.
Mama Irene, Healer of the Andes
Mama Irene, Healer of the Andes, is the story of a remarkable 86 year old Shaman (Healer) from Peru who draws upon indigenous knowledge and traditions in danger of being lost forever. This film is not only a vital docume
Healer: The Dr. Joycelyn Elders Story
Healer: The Dr. Joycelyn Elders Story traces the remarkable life of Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who rose from humble beginnings in the cotton fields of Arkansas to national prominence as the first African American Surgeon Gener
Spite: An African Prophet-Healer
People from all over the Ivory Coast seek out prophet-healers for treatment of their medical and emotional problems. Some of these ailments may be caused by the stress of cultural change. Often Western medicine cannot cu
Sastun: My Apprenticeship to a Maya Healer
about Rosita Arvigo who was the sole apprentice to Don Elijio Panti for 13 years and has resided in Belize for the past 35+ years. Don Elijio Panti, who passed away in 1996 at the age of 103, was considered one of the l
The Healer's Dream
A Nepali Ayurvedic Doctor shares his journey and dream of keeping the tradition alive.
The Healer's Syndrome
Many African AIDS patients regularly consult traditional faith healers. Dr. Moussa Maman, an ethno-psychiatrist who has practiced medicine for 20 years, takes us to Benin, Niger and Senegal to meet some of the faith heal
The Healer's Edge
Officer Ray, a suicide intervention officer, who brings people into the light is struggling to find his way out of the darkness and ends up being the hero who needs saving.
Mpambanda, the Healer, Telling a Story
Ethnographic film
The Healer of the Indigenous Communiites of the Highlands of Chiapas
When Jacinto falls ill, his relatives call on a local healer to cure him. This intimate look at traditional Mayan healing practices reveals indigenous values for addressing the physical, spiritual, and psychological aspe
Jero Tapakan - Stories from the Life of a Balinese Healer
Jero, who know sustains a lively practice as both medium and masseuse, recalls her earlier poverty and despair as a farmer, and how she fled her home and wandered briefly in the countryside as a peddler. After serious il
Dr. Robert F. Thomas - The Great Smoky Mountain Horseback Healer of Body and Soul
This is a documentary about Dr. Robert F. Thomas, a missionary minister to the Smoky Mountains from the 1920's-1980. He delivered many babies at Pittman Center in the Smokies, among those was famous singer Dolly Parton.
Mananambal
A horror film starring Nora Aunor and Bianca Umali. Set in Siquijor, a Mananambal is a Filipino practitioner of traditional medicine, who is also capable of performing sorcery.
Kapaemahu
Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit, led by Kapaemahu, brought certain healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii and were loved by the people for their gentle ways and the miraculous cures they pe
Baida
Three film makers, going for documentary film shoot about uncertain deaths in a rural village of Odisha. But what they found out is something bigger than they ever imagined.
Old Loves and New
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass